WEST POINT, N.Y. – Army West Point Director of Swimming and Diving Scott Thacker has introduced the hiring of Noah Hensley as affiliate head coach of ladies’s swimming and diving.
“I knew from the second I saw Scott was hired as the new director of swim and dive that I wanted to be on his staff, and I couldn’t be more honored and humbled to be joining the Black Knights. I can’t wait to get to work with the incredible cadets to continue their success in and out of the pool! Go Army!” Hensley stated.
“Noah’s background as an ACC champion and NCAA All-American, paired with his proven history of developing record-breakers and national contenders, makes him an immediate asset to our program. He has consistently driven competitive breakthroughs at every stop in his coaching career, and his energy will be key in helping our student-athletes reach their potential. We are excited to welcome Noah to West Point and look forward to the impact he will make on our team!” Director of Swimming and Diving Scott Thacker stated.
Hensley arrives at Army West Point from Highlander Aquatics in Orlando, Fla. There, Hensley labored with all teams ranging in age from 10 to 18. During his time in Orlando, the staff loved success at each state and nationwide competitions. The staff produced a number of state champions on the Florida Age Group Championships whereas additionally putting two ladies on the Age Group Zone Team.
At Colorado School of Mines, the staff rewrote the document board with 10 program data throughout each genders in the course of the 2024-25 season. The program despatched 5 athletes to the Division II NCAA Championships, three ladies and two males. The Mines males’s staff secured the very best end on the NCAA Championships since 2011, and probably the most factors scored since 2005.
Before becoming a member of Mines, Hensley was affiliate head coach of the boys’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups at Miami University. During his stint at Miami, he helped the student-athletes break 18 program data and 6 convention data, win 15 particular person convention titles and two staff titles on the boys’s facet, extending their streak to 4.
On the nationwide stage, Hensley helped the RedHawk ladies end thirty third within the nation in 2023 and thirty second in 2024, that are the fourth- and third-highest finishes in program historical past. The Miami ladies additionally completed runner-up on the 2024 MAC Swimming & Diving Championships, their highest end since 2014. His time in Oxford, Ohio, was additionally highlighted by putting Nicole Maier on the German Olympic staff as a part of the 800-freestyle relay, along with a visit to the South African Olympic Trials with Olympic hopeful and biomedical engineering pupil Henju Duvenhage.
From August 2021 to August 2022, Hensley was the assistant coach for the boys’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups at IUPUI. In his season with the Jaguars, the women and men mixed to provide 11 college data, win six gold medals and seem on 22 podiums on the Horizon League Championships. Hensley’s accomplishments in Indianapolis additionally embody teaching the 2022 Horizon League Women’s Freshman of the Year and serving to the groups to a pair of third-place finishes within the standings. That expertise adopted the 2020-21 season, when he was a volunteer at North Carolina State University, serving to develop 5 NCAA champions, 13 All-Americans and one NCAA/US Open record-setting relay.
Hensley earned a bachelor’s diploma in sport administration from North Carolina State University in May 2020. His commencement capped a collegiate profession spanning two ACC applications from 2015-20. His profession began at Florida State in 2015-16, the place he scored factors in all three particular person races on the ACC Swimming & Diving Championships, highlighted by a sixth-place end within the 100-back. Hensley arrived at N.C. State in January 2017 and sat out for a season earlier than qualifying for the NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships within the 100-back in spring 2018. That 12 months, he completed twenty fifth within the nation within the 100-back. In 2018-19, the Florida native was an All-American within the 100-fly and was named to the Academic All-ACC Team.
Hensley’s last collegiate season, 2019-20, noticed the staff captain win the ACC title as a part of the 400-freestyle relay whereas incomes All-American honors within the 100-fly, 400-freestyle relay and 800-freestyle relay. In addition to his particular person accomplishments at N.C. State, Hensley was additionally an integral a part of Wolfpack groups that completed fourth within the nation from 2017-20 and received 4 ACC staff titles.
“Thank you to Scott, Kat Mirance and the whole Army West Point Athletic Department for this amazing opportunity with the swimming and diving program!”
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